[SDL] SDL_FreeSurface issue?

[Lilith Calbridge]

Quick question.  Where you're showing "// throw error" exactly what does
your code do?  

Lilith

>>> On 11/13/2006 at 2:35 PM, in message
<36e6d5110611131235u25564d93r9da6fdbfb7d87d98 at mail.gmail.com>, "Armond
Sarkisian" <armond.sarkisian at gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks for your help. I will check to see if I can verifying if
LoadIMG( )
> returns a NULL.
> 
> Regards,
> Armond
> 
> On 11/12/06, andreas <anpa502 at telia.com> wrote:
>>
>> It should not be any problem to repeatedly allocate/free surfaces.
>> Remember that the method "LoadIMG()" must return NULL in case image
>> loading fails. Otherwise SDL_FreeSurface() may try to free something
that is
>> not in use and unexpected results will come.
>>
>> /a
>>
>> Armond wrote:
>> > Hi everyone,
>> >
>> > I want to know one thing. If I create a surface, allocate it and
then
>> > deallocate it and then once more allocate it again, would that
cause a
>> problem.
>> > I seem to have a problem with the examples below. I thought if
you
>> deallocate
>> > it, all should be well right?
>> >
>> > ////////////////////////////////////////
>> > image = LoadIMG( "ball.bmp" );
>> > if( !image ) // throw error
>> > SDL_FreeSurface( image );
>> > image = NULL; // just in case
>> > image = LoadIMG( "ball.bmp" );
>> > if( !image ) // throw error
>> > ////////////////////////////////////////
>> >
>>
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